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Soon after it became widely believed, and Stowe confirmed the connection, that Hensen\'s book and Life experience was a major source of her work..
After the publication was released in 1849 it received little public attention until Harriet Beecher Stowe\'s novel, Uncle Tom\'s Cabin , was published in 1852.
Although Henson was an accomplished orator, he had not yet learned to read and write.
Eliot-a former Boston Mayor known for his anti-slavery views.
This slave narrative is Henson\'s first work but was dictated to Samuel A.
Published in 1849, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself provides a detailed description of the Henson\'s Life as a slave in the south.
The story of the real Harriet Beecher Stowe\'s "Uncle Tom".
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